My love for woodworking began in high school which had a well equipped industrial arts classroom and offered courses in architectural and mechanical drawing, woodworking and woodturning. After taking every course offered, I tried to repeat them but wasn't allowed. I did apartment woodworking for a number of years, building simple shelves, DVD racks, and step stools. After buying a house with a separate shop building I finally purchased a table saw and began making furniture for the house. These days I make whatever suits my fancy from shop layout tools, boxes, turned projects and more.

Not much interest in this so I’ll wrap it up. It’s done other than paint is drying. At some point I’ll put templates up on my personal blog (link in sig). If some future person comes along and is interested and I haven’t pu...

Next part is making the cam and what I’m calling the “shoe” (as in brake shoe) for lack of a better term (suggestions welcome).
The original cam template. I made this and it didn’t look right. Probably should have tried ...

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My fence will be adapted from the the bandsaw fence built by Paul Fiebach, published in the Oct 1974 Popular Mechanics. Calling this a “plan” is generous. Like many old “plans”, it...

I ordered a reconditioned Hitachi 12” chop saw from CPO. First one arrived in a flimsy box with almost no padding and the cast base was busted and a knob was busted. They sent me another one. Second one was in a slightly heavier box and was ...

I’m calling it a folded cube because it’s supposed to look folded, and it’s a cube. I’m open to better names :)
Made this table/stool with my daughter. No finish yet as it was due this morning and we didn’t sta...